he's a mostly cocker spaniel mix, black, 30lb, 1&1/2year old male. it'll take awhile to bond but he's been very good so far. the photos are in sequence of where i've been through the state of north dakota. the lewis and clark camps are mostly under water now due to the damming of the river to form lake sakakawea. the forts were essentially all there was out here back in the 1800's. they provided protection, shelter, trade goods and frontier justice. once i got to the western part of the state and the ND badlands the scenery became more pleasing. i [View Full Entry]

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Hola Amigos! Dar la bienvenida mi diario. (Hello friends! Welcome to my journal/diary). Today is Monday, May 15th and I am two days (and counting) away from departing for Spain. I am anxiously awaiting D-day. It seems like just a few short weeks ago when I first began making travel plans. If you are reading this diary entry, you likely received an unsolicited email message notifying you of this entry. I took the liberty to "subscribe" you to my travel blog. You should receive an email each time I post a new entry. If you wish not to be a "subscriber" [View Full Entry]

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Hello, I've added 50 new pictures. I'll add more of puzzleworld and new zealand on the next blog. I'll leave these pics up for about a week..so have a look before they're gone! Beth and Justin [View Full Entry]

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Home in Snowy Grand Forks Hey Everyone!!!! Well I've been home now back in ND for two weeks and I miss my friends and home in the Southern Hemisphere more then you can imagine!!!! I want the New Zealand sun instead of all the snow and ice and I really miss the kiwi accents...but I'm slowly transitioning back to what everyone calls "reality"...anyways the last month and a half in New Zealand were jammed packed with fun nights and crazy adventures so I'll be adding a few blogs to catch everyone up on my final travels...and maybe reliving my adventures [View Full Entry]

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We have made it to Tower City, North Dakota, about 50 miles west of Fargo/Moorhead. We are about an hour ahead of schedule. We stopped to look for camping and saw a seedy motel with a camping sign and went to the city park instead to get our bearings and cook. A couple from the house acrossed the street told us we could camp here for free. there are flush toilets, running pump water and a great lawn with a nice pavillion and a park for the kids to play in. The temp in MN and here wasn't that bad, about [View Full Entry]

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Well, we are still at home in North Dakota and Minnesota. I'm trying out this journal entry stuff to see how it works so bare with me. I hope everyone has time to check out our pictures, right now I just uploaded a few that I had in my camera to mess around with it, we will be removing them and putting in better ones next week when we are in Europe. Things have been crazy lately from copying everything from your passport to train tickets so that our parent's have a copy of everything. We are really looking forward to [View Full Entry]

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North Dakota. What can I say about the state, which has more power line poles than human? As soon as we arrived at the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, all we could think about was how remote the area was. All we have here is open wilderness, with hills and green open fields, and buffalo are grazing in a distance. The night here is amazing, with nobody else but our group, no light obstruction coming from anywhere; all we have is our companion and thousands of stars in the sky. I introduced the brutal "Indo slap" game, which creates a lot of [View Full Entry]

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